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Video Interviews with Top Children's Book Authors and Illustrators from Reading Rockets:
Watch David Shannon, Chris Raschka, Buzz Aldrin, Avi, and many, many more of your favorite authors. Many kids are very concrete learners, meaning if they can’t see, touch, or feel, then new ideas aren’t real to them. That means many of these kids have no real idea of what an author does, and won’t be motivated to write on their own. Put real authors in front of them, and that can change.

Kids on the Block Puppeteers
Presented by The Parent Child Center of Tulsa

Looking for a program to help kids deal with difficult solutions at your local school or community group? Maybe you want to help out people doing this good work? Well get a load of… Kids on the Block!

Trained puppeteers present performances in elementary schools and the community with child size puppets to teach children what to do in tough life situations and how to get help. KOB performs to children Pre-K through 5th grade with skits on a variety of topics such as:

The Screen Actors Guild has some of its stars reading some great kids books. See Sean Asten (Sam Gamgee of “The Lord of the Rings”) read A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon, see Golden Girl Betty White read Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion, and many more.
See all the readings at: http://www.storylineonline.net/

The Sherman Miller Museum of Jewish Art will offer a special kids program, "Jewish Life and Folk Tales", on Sunday, August 4, from 1-2pm.
Join them for an hour of exploring the Alexander Kanchik exhibit in this interactive workshop for children. A quest through the exhibit will put the children’s minds to work as they explore the world of Kanchik’s art.
The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art is at 2021 East 71st Street Tulsa.
For more information call 918.492.1818.
See more at: http://jewishmuseum.net

Not everything on the web is free and available to everyone! Here's a great database for families with young children, and it is free with your Tulsa City-County Library card. Access full-text popular school magazines and research sources, American Heritage Children's Dictionary and an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile). Go to: http://www.tulsalibrary.org/databases and choose "Primary Search".